Mallet Wrapping

Don’t throw away those unraveled mallets! Just rewrap them! Believe it or not, the Leigh Steven’s mallets from Mallettech are wrapped by hand! So grab some yarn and an old mallet that you have laying around and give this a try!

I found this guy on Youtube and he does a really good job of explaining how to wrap a mallet! Don’t be fooled though, it does take some practice! My wife isn’t a percussionist and she’s way better at this than me 🙂

On a side note, He does not actually re-wrap the IP mallet, but instead a homemade mallet with a wood core. This is why it sounds so brittle when he plays the marimba with it at the end of the video!

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Build your own Marimba!

Here is an awesome time lapse video of Jim from makeamarimba.com. He did this in 5 days and time lapsed it to 4 minutes!